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Attacks on the Press: Divided, Journalists Are at Risk
No amount of security training can make up for a lack of professional solidarity. By Frank Smyth
Attacks on the Press | Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mali, Turkey
No amount of security training can make up for a lack of professional solidarity. By Frank Smyth
Blog | CPJ, El Salvador, Security
By Frank Smyth/Senior Adviser for Journalist Security
No other journalists are remembered quite like this. Visitors looking through the glass display at the Monsignor Romero Center & Martyrs Museum in San Salvador see the pajamas and other clothes that three Jesuit university priests were wearing when they were shot down by automatic rifle fire. A series of clear containers are filled with dark blades of grass cut from the campus lawn where each had spilled his blood.
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